Soft Cell recorded a song that nicked its title from this book, a song about a man “who goes to Los Angeles and just sees how many people he can have in a weekend. It’s a soundtrack of loveless sex…”
Complete attractive two-volume set in slipcase. Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker and published Tokyo by Charles E. Tuttle, 1978. 2 fine softcover in original illustrated slipcase. XIX, 1090 pp. Illustrated with woodcuts. Slipcase with minor edgewear, name to free front endpaper, two pages with notes else fine, clean and well…